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Section 504

What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?

Section 504 is a federal law designed to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities in programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education (ED). Section 504 provides: “No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States . . . shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance . . . .” 

The Section 504 regulations require a school district to provide a “free appropriate public education” (FAPE) to each qualified student with a disability who is in the school district’s jurisdiction, regardless of the nature or severity of the disability. Under Section 504, FAPE consists of the provision of regular or special education and related aids and services designed to meet the student’s individual educational needs as adequately as the needs of nondisabled students are met.

Reference: www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/504faq.html

Please refer to the links for Office of Civil Rights Section 504 information/resources. 

Section 504 Staff

Tanisha Penick

School Psychologist

Tonia Safford-McClure

Psychologist-504 Coordinator

Section 504 - Office for civil rights page

GATE Information

GATE-Gifted and Talented Education 

At TVCS, our unique science and arts program naturally scaffolds learning for students who need additional challenges in their learning. Additionally, each Spring, TVCS offers a unique after school enrichment program involving specialized instruction in a number of specialized areas. Previous offerings have included computer engineering, art history, journalism, and advanced visual media. Courses are taught in 2 week cycles and generally run from January through April. 

For middle school students, an advanced project based learning elective is offered for gifted students who want to further explore their own areas of interest. Finally, we highly encourage our gifted middle school students to participate in our academic competition teams such as MathCounts.

California Association for the Gifted
 
Sally Ride Science @UC San Diego
 
Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
 

SENG is dedicated to fostering environments in which gifted adults and children, in all their diversity, understand and accept themselves and are understood, valued, nurtured, and supported by their families, schools, workplaces and communities.

 
Common Myths about Gifted Students
 
Resources for Parents
 
National Association for Gifted Children

ROAR

ROAR, Rock On Achievement Results, is a Literacy Intervention  program for students in Transitional Kindergarten through Fifth Grade.  The focus is to assist students through targeted interventions that result in students mastering the California ELA standards.   

In collaboration with the teacher, progress is monitored frequently.  Teachers and parents receive progress reports and assessment data each reporting period (October, January, March, and May).  Students referred to ROAR are identified through the following assessments;

  • San Diego Quick
  • Fluency
  • Fountas and Pinnell
  • Formal Assessments
  • Informal Assessments
  • Interum Assessments
  • CAASPP Performance

The ROAR Intervention Specialists and the ROAR Coordinator use this data to tailor the individualized intervention.  This combined effort results in academic achievement using a multi-tiered model that enhances and accelerates achievement.  

The ROAR program provides high-quality instruction and intervention in a small group setting using  these targeted skills;

  • Letter/Sounds
  • Phonemic Awareness
  • Phonics Instruction
  • Word Recognition (includes Sight Words)
  • Spelling Rules
  • Reading Fluency
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Writing

This is a unique, unparalleled intervention program designed by our own in-house literacy specialists. Read On!

Links

CAASPP, CA Assessment of Performance and progress
El Dorado Charter SELPA

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